Who should I turn to if I’m not feeling well? Psychologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist or psychoanalyst?
Asking for help is not always easy, especially when it comes to mental health. Fortunately, today there is less embarrassment in saying “I’m not well” and seeking the right support. The problem comes when we ask ourselves: “Who should I go to?” psychologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist or psychoanalyst?
Dr. Fiammetta Acernese Baumann
She graduated in Psychology from La Sapienza University of Rome in 1982 and completed her specialization in Psychodiagnostics and Clinical Psychology in 1990. An expert in Clinical Criminology at the Ministry of Justice in Rome, she completed Freudian analytical training with Ignacio Matte Blanco and Jungian training with Dieter Baumann.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
The healing of psychological disorders is lost in the mists of time. In ancient times, medical, philosophical, or religious schools—both in the West and in the East—made use of highly sophisticated technical methods and mental training.
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology is the knowledge of the human being in their unity and individuality, and in their relationships with other human beings. It is the identification of the healthy, creative aspects of the individual in order to promote and foster better human relationships and to rediscover the meaning of one’s own existence.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
With Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis was born more than a century ago. As the heir of a long and complex tradition, it established the first school of psychotherapy in the modern sense. Many contemporary schools derive from it, such as psychoanalytic psychotherapy and analytical psychology founded by Carl Gustav Jung.
PSYCHODIAGNOSIS
Psychodiagnosis is the initial means of understanding a person’s problems, personality knots, and symptoms that shape their way of being in the world; without it, it is impossible to find direction. Treatment, always centered on the individual, draws upon the therapist’s broad training and extensive experience.
